A new home

So, I'm working on editing two novels just now. I edit usually by printing that beast out and marking up the changes (in this case I'm using a purple pen, not a red one. Red is horrible.) to a chapter and then go to the document and apply the edits, make a few more tweaks, then move on to the next chapter. And this is exactly what I'm doing with Ganymede Tilt. Markup, apply, move on.

BUT - what about The Company Man? Since that's not the priority, I'm marking up a chapter when I can, then putting it in the folder with the rest. Once I'm done with Ganymede Tilt I'll start applying all those marked up edits. But it occurred to me the other day - what about backing up that work? It's okay for GT, I apply the edits to the document, then the document is backed up, so great. If I somehow lost all the marked up paper, it's no big deal. Once the edits are applied it doesn't matter too much what happens to the marked up printout.

But since TCM markup isn't being applied right away, what then? I can't carry that big-ass lever arch file everywhere I go to keep it safe! If I lost that paper copy, the work is gone, I have to start from scratch.

So...scanning! :D Yes, that's how backup obsessed I am. I am scanning the marked up paages into PDFs, which are then backed up into the cloud. So, worst comes to worst, I can pull 'em down and print 'em off. Or work from them onscreen, whatever.

I think I just have that weird kind of mind, that will look at a process and say "here's where it could go wrong. (They love me at work, as you can imagine.) I suppose it's a writer's kind of mind. We look at something buzzing along happily and imagine how it could go horribly wrong and what the consequences would be.

I think I heard something on TV once that the Pentagon, or some such body, got in a group of Hollywood screen writers to come up with ideas for potential security threats, because they didn't have the imagination themselves to think up the kind of terrorist attacks that could occur, and they therefore needed to have contingency plans for. Apparently, it takes either a religous fanatic terrorist or a writer to come up with ideas like flying planes into buildings.

Anyway, I'm back at work after the long, long weekend of Jubilee festivities (which I took pretty much ZERO part in.) And I don't know why I bothered. I'm taking tomorrow off now, because the blooy Metro is going on strike and I really don't fancy the awful bus service, especially as it's going to be raining heavily tomorrow. Oh, yay, thanks for that. I should have just taken these three days off and got some writing done.

Did get a good bit of editing and brainstorming done over the weekend, which is good. And a load of busywork on my website, figuring out how to make it less bloggy looking. Which I have done - with some obscure Wordpress settings. It still needs work, but I was about ready to fly a plane into WordPress's building, with how much it was annoying me, so I will go back for more later.

So, I'm working on editing two novels just now. I edit usually by printing that beast out and marking up the changes (in this case I'm using a purple pen, not a red one. Red is horrible.) to a chapter and then go to the document and apply the edits, make a few more tweaks, then move on to the next chapter. And this is exactly what I'm doing with Ganymede Tilt. Markup, apply, move on.

BUT - what about The Company Man? Since that's not the priority, I'm marking up a chapter when I can, then putting it in the folder with the rest. Once I'm done with Ganymede Tilt I'll start applying all those marked up edits. But it occurred to me the other day - what about backing up that work? It's okay for GT, I apply the edits to the document, then the document is backed up, so great. If I somehow lost all the marked up paper, it's no big deal. Once the edits are applied it doesn't matter too much what happens to the marked up printout.

But since TCM markup isn't being applied right away, what then? I can't carry that big-ass lever arch file everywhere I go to keep it safe! If I lost that paper copy, the work is gone, I have to start from scratch.

So...scanning! :D Yes, that's how backup obsessed I am. I am scanning the marked up paages into PDFs, which are then backed up into the cloud. So, worst comes to worst, I can pull 'em down and print 'em off. Or work from them onscreen, whatever.

I think I just have that weird kind of mind, that will look at a process and say "here's where it could go wrong. (They love me at work, as you can imagine.) I suppose it's a writer's kind of mind. We look at something buzzing along happily and imagine how it could go horribly wrong and what the consequences would be.

I think I heard something on TV once that the Pentagon, or some such body, got in a group of Hollywood screen writers to come up with ideas for potential security threats, because they didn't have the imagination themselves to think up the kind of terrorist attacks that could occur, and they therefore needed to have contingency plans for. Apparently, it takes either a religous fanatic terrorist or a writer to come up with ideas like flying planes into buildings.

Anyway, I'm back at work after the long, long weekend of Jubilee festivities (which I took pretty much ZERO part in.) And I don't know why I bothered. I'm taking tomorrow off now, because the blooy Metro is going on strike and I really don't fancy the awful bus service, especially as it's going to be raining heavily tomorrow. Oh, yay, thanks for that. I should have just taken these three days off and got some writing done.

Did get a good bit of editing and brainstorming done over the weekend, which is good. And a load of busywork on my website, figuring out how to make it less bloggy looking. Which I have done - with some obscure Wordpress settings. It still needs work, but I was about ready to fly a plane into WordPress's building, with how much it was annoying me, so I will go back for more later.